YOURS FREE!10 crucial steps most people miss when organizing their digital photos

Most people want to just organize their digital pictures and ignore these crucial steps right at the beginning...when they are shooting and transferring their digital pictures. Then they wonder why they can't organize their digital photos! Avoid most people's mistakes and start on the right track!

My pictures counter for January 2010

How many digital pictures do you have? Have you ever counted them? It’s easy! At the end of October 2009 I decided to keep track of how many digital pictures and videos I have on my hard drive. So, I hope to be able to provide an update at the end of each month and show you how many pictures & videos I have, how much space they take and how much space I have left on my main hard drive.

My digital pictures counter for January 2010

Pictures & videos: 42,726 files

Total size: 107 GigaBytes(GB)

Space remaining: 43 GigaBytes

Since last month: + 916 files

Since last month: 5Gb size

Why the difference from last month?

This month we took close to 1000 pictures. Yep, that sounds right. We took a trip to Pasadena to see the Rose Parade floats which was great (See my pictures from the 2010 Rose Parade) even though it was very hot and too many people. Then we went to San Clemente to the beach and the pier (No pictures yet). Lastly we took a trip to Solvang (See my older pictures from Solvang) which was amazingly scenic and green. It’s amazing what rain does to California.

My computer hardware setup

I am pretty cheap when it comes to purchasing technology. I usually buy older technology because it’s much cheaper than the latest technology…duh! I have an old PC (probably more than five years old) with two internal hard drives. One hard drive is smaller (100Gb) and I use it mainly for all my programs and some media other than pictures and videos. I have some music and lots of podcasts on that drive. I divided it in two partitions (40Gb for programs and 60Gb for other media).

The second hard drive is dedicated to my pictures and videos. It is a bit larger than my system disk (150Gb). This is where all my pictures are being stored.

The third hard drive is external and it is the largest of them all (200Gb). I have also created two partitions: one that is 150Gb for my pictures and another partition that is 50Gb for backing up my documents and some other media. I back up both my pictures and all my music and podcasts. This is a simple hard drive enclosure where I have added an internal hard drive. I build it myself so that I make sure that there is a good hard drive inside. Simple but functional.

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About me

After being completely overwhelmed by my digital photos, I have developed the simplest and most efficient system for organizing all my digital media. I call my system STORE.
Now I am enjoying over 100,000 pictures & videos. Read my story.

My Courses

Personal Coaching - Get a personal plan specific for your computer setup in addition to all my books and videos. It's like having me directly work with you as you organize your photos.

“Your simple, personalized approach is ideal not only for the beginner, but also for advanced amateurs.
Top notch!" - Barriemore...

Independent course - Get all my books plus 6 video modules containing over 30 detailed videos that will show you how to organize your digital photos step by step.

"I was able to transfer, delete some, move to appropriately named folders, and edited, added some tags and identified some people. So, at this point I am able to accomplish most of what I wanted to do." - Janemore...

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